THEY CALLED IT BEAR WRESTLING
They called it bear wrestling. Found often under the circus sections called “"Monsters of the Midway." There was a time in America when a man[…]
The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8[…]
HAVE YOU SEEN THE ELEPHANT? SEEING THE ELEPHANT?
Many historians believe the expressions may trace back even earlier to big-game hunting, including African elephant hunting, though the Civil War usage is what firmly[…]
THE MARTIAL ARTS BOG. (…not “blog”- “BOG!”)
Don’t “bog down” in your martial arts when you first actually sought-seek-want clean, generic hand, stick, knife and gun survival versus crime and war. * Bog[…]
WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
Me and the Lone Ranger! Poking around the ROKU app, I stumbled upon the season 1, episode 1 of the old Lone Ranger TV show. The[…]
ME and THE “ROCK” MARINES…
The textbook manuals will define the ROK Marines as: “The Republic of Korea Marine Corps, also known as the ROK Marine Corps, or the ROK[…]
PARTS OF ARTS. SORTS OF SPORTS
“Parts of Arts.” “Sorts of Sports.” I spent most of my martial arts and military and police defensive tactics career, decades, looking for “The Next Best[…]
THE FACE MAUL
The face maul. I first learned this from working with Jeet Kune Do’s Tim Tacket. 1990s. Tim learned it from Bert Poe, a Marine Raider,[…]
ON KNIFE STRESS DRAWS (and other weapons)…
Getting the weapon off of-from-out of your carry sites with your everyday clothing wear is important training. In this generic, free-from-formal art subject, in my[…]
A HEALTHY WAY TO VIEW MARTIAL LEADERS AND SYSTEMS. THINK FOOTBALL!
A HEALTHY WAY TO VIEW MARTIAL LEADERS AND SYSTEMS. THINK FOOTBALL! To my surprise a recent post I made about Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) has[…]